Changing spectrum and outcome of 705 fet al congenital heart disease cases: 12 years, experience in a third-level center

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 910-915

  Russo, Maria G ^a   Paladini, Dario ^b   Pacileo, Giuseppe ^a   Ricci, Concetta ^a   Salvo, Giovanni Di ^a   Felicetti, Maria ^a   Pietto, Laura Di ^a   Tartaglione, Antonio ^b   Palladino, Maria T ^a   Santoro, Giuseppe ^a   Caianiello, Giuseppe ^a   Vosa, Carlo ^b   Calabro, Raffaele ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Effectiveness of prenatal diagnosis; Fet al echocardiography; Heart disease; Outcome of prenatally detected congenital; Trends in prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONOTRUNCAL ANOMALY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; HEALTH CENTER; HEART HYPOPLASIA; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOSOMY X; NEWBORN DEATH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; TURNER SYNDROME; ABORTION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; ITALY; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ABORTION, EUGENIC; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 55249091653     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e32830212cf     Document Type: Article

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